· Private foundation
J H Tappan and Winnie Converse Tappan Perpetual Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO | $2,700 |
| WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION | $500 |
| IN-SYNC EXOTICS | $400 |
| PEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY | $350 |
| PRIMARILY PRIMATES | $350 |
| SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION | $300 |
| SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $300 |
| HEADWATERS AT INCARNATE WORD | $300 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $250 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS | $250 |
| HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY WILDLIFE CENTER | $250 |
| AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WRWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +56%
- SASAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +114%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- HCHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +109%
- SASpay-Neuter Assistance Program Incone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +11%
- BPBrackenridge Park Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.
To prevent the overpopulation of cats and dogs by funding spay and neuter services for domestic animals owned by the residents of San Antonio and Bexar County. To develop, promote, and sponsor programs of education to encourage better…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The organization is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing orphaned and injured wildlife in the texas panhandle.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Rescue and place abandoned and unwanted pets. Provide low cost spay / neuter. Provide low-cost microchips. Provide community education.
We own and operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic. Our purpose is to end animal cruelty in Texas, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and end the dumping and abandonment of cats and dogs. We also have an education program to teach Texas residents…
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of San Antonio (Audit) and the most unlike its peers is Guide Dogs of Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds INSYNC EXOTIC INC ↗
- Who funds PEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIMARILY PRIMATES INC ↗
- Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Hixon Family Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Alfred S Gage Foundation · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization J H Tappan and Winnie Converse Tappan Perpetual Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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